Densely packed crowds gathered on Tuesday morning for funeral ceremonies of the late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in the city of Qom, according to an Israeli media report and unattributed social-media footage.
Tens of thousands of mourners gathered on Tuesday morning in the holy city of Qom for funeral ceremonies marking the death of the late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, according to an Israeli media report and unattributed social-media footage.
The Qom event is the latest stage of a multi-city funeral itinerary that The Zioneer has tracked since Friday Jul 3, when the first ceremonies began in Tehran. Initial reports on Monday Jul 6 (09:31 Jerusalem) cited Israeli journalist Asaf Rozentzweig (N12) on millions attending the Tehran procession; by the same hour, Rozentzweig also reported aerial footage showing millions in attendance. A separate report at that time said Khamenei's body had arrived in Qom for the continuation. The current development — the actual Qom ceremony — materializes that advance notice with a crowd the report estimates in the tens of thousands, though the number has not been independently corroborated.
Background items in The Zioneer archive show that the Qom ceremony had been announced by Iranian media as early as Mon Jun 22 (09:20 Jerusalem). Earlier stages of the funeral saw the participation of President Masoud Pezeshkian (Mon Jul 6, 09:31 Jerusalem), a Hamas delegation (reported Fri Jul 3, 18:46 Jerusalem), and an Iranian Jewish community leader as part of an official religious delegation (Fri Jul 3, 14:41 Jerusalem). Arab media outlet Al-Arabiya estimated 200,000–300,000 attendees for the first day of the farewell ceremony in Tehran (Sat Jul 4, 23:26 Jerusalem), a figure markedly lower than the millions cited by Iranian sources.
The precise sequence of ceremonies in Qom and the overall attendance figure remain open; the Israeli report did not provide an independent crowd count or a detailed schedule of the day's events. No official Iranian crowd estimate has been cited for Qom in this report.
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